Three temporary parking lots approved during Monday night’s Planning Board meeting are expected to launch in time for the summer season. Presented by waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial, the parking lots are meant to help alleviate parking constraints brought on by the city’s revitalization. This winter, residents and business owners voiced concerns about increasingly limited parking […]

Work on the municipal parking lot is begins today officials said. Parking at the Main Street lot, located in front of the city hall, will be limited as milling and paving work begins. “I want to apologize in advance for the inconvenience but I think everybody will agree that the paving of the municipal lot […]

Representatives from Desman Associates, the firm hired to study parking in the city, presented their findings to the public before they opened the floor to comments and questions Tuesday night. Splitting the city into three main zones, the waterfront, Central Business District [CBD] and Main Street, Greg Shumate, a senior associate at Desman, outlined the conclusions […]

From Thanksgiving day through New Year’s Eve and every Thursday in between, anyone who parks in any of the city’s metered spaces won’t have to pay to park. Asbury Park City Council members unanimously approved this year’s dates at their Nov. 12 meeting. Last year, the city offered free parking on Wednesdays during the holiday […]

Free parking in any of Asbury Park’s metered spots has been extended through February. Councilman John Loffredo announced plans for the extension during last week’s city council meeting. Loffredo is the chairman of the city’s parking committee. At the committee’s monthly meeting, business owners said the Wednesday free parking initiative was helpful to them, according […]

The City of Asbury Park is in search of a parking consultant. After a presentation given by Leonard Bier, principal at Bier Associates, at Tuesday’s council meeting, members of city council voted unanimously to go out to bid in search of someone who will conduct a holistic study of the current parking situation in the […]

Every Wednesdays from Dec. 4-27, anyone who parks in any of the city’s metered spaced will enjoy free parking and, beginning today, three parking lots located along the waterfront will be left open until Jan. 2. Members of the Asbury Park City Council had announced plans to discuss holiday parking options at last week’s council meeting in […]

The city and waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners have finally reached an agreement regarding three surface parking lots in the waterfront area. The lots are located adjacent to the Carousel building at the end of Cookman Avenue; on Ocean Avenue between Second and Third avenues [pictured above]; and on Fourth Avenue next to the Wonder Bar. In […]

Paid parking resumes in the waterfront area and the downtown business district on Monday, April 1. “I ask everyone to prepare themselves for that,” said Mayor Ed Johnson at the March 13 council meeting when the go-ahead was given to resume charging. “It’s well past time.” Paid parking had been suspended while parking pay stations […]

Boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette may shut down Convention Hall if it cannot continue its use of three surface parking lots in the city’s waterfront redevelopment area, said Gary Mottola, president of property investments for the group, yesterday. Madison Marquette is asking the city to acquiesce to several requests in order for the redeveloper to continue […]